In the previous posts (Part I, Part II) in this series I proposed that ethics from a global perspective is best seen as an optimization problem, and that the objective is to maximize the individual utility

This is part II of a planned series of posts on the foundations of ethics. In the first part (which you should probably read first if you haven't) I made the case that ethics (from a systems perspective)

I am new to this platform but I like it so far, and thought I might try it out to share something that has been on my mind a lot lately. Let's see if anyone will be interested (or even find it in the first